Dedication to Demeter

IGCyr067400

Trismegistos ID: 738352

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 74-516 (American finds).

Support

White, brown stained, marble rectangular base with plain mouldings on top and below, broken off at lower left and both right angles (0.72; 0.30;0.38).

Layout

Inscribed on the face between the mouldings.

Letters

0.026; carefully cut, sigma with slanting strokes, no serifs.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Second half of fourth or beginning of third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found in 1974 at Cyrene : Enclosed sanctuary of Demeter and Kore , in building E12.

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2010 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

White, 1976 , p. 172, footnote 21 and pl. 27, whence SEG , 26.1833 ; also White, 1976-1977 , pp. 274-275 and pl. LXXV a; Reynolds, 2012 , p. 192 n. A.4.

Text

Ἀριστοπάτρα Θαλίννω τᾶι Δάματρι ἀνέθηκε.

Apparatus

2 Reynolds, 2012  ἀνέθηκε (the possibility of a final nu seemed to her uncertain)

French translation

Aristopatra fille de Thalinnos a consacré à Dèmèter.

English translation

Aristopatra daughter of Thalinnos dedicated to Demeter.

Italian translation

Aristopatra figlia di Thalinnos ha dedicato a Demetra.

Commentary

When found, this dedication was the first complete dedication to Demeter from the site.

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